Group Art Classes near Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Creating art is a natural human instinct that most of us take for granted. The misperception that you must be an artist to make art has kept many of us from this amazing expressive process. With our experimental group art classes, we make it easy and fun to learn and expand your undeveloped artistic talent.

BOTTLED ART

Join us for a wonderful creative night out! Bring a bottle of wine and your creativity. This is not your typical art and wine class, we incorporate paint, music and meditative exercises to help unleash your creativity! Leave all your stress behind, you are entering a judgemental-free, friendly, fun and humble environment. Come alone, bring your spouse, your date or friends.

Our instructor will guide you through the process of creating a masterpiece! You will be amazed with the results! You do not need to be an artist. All supplies and materials are included. Just bring your favorite bottle of wine and we’ll do the rest! This class is perfect for Private Parties and Date Night.

Expressive drawing.an introduction to the art of drawinG.6-class Session

Drawing is a form of poetry, a dance, a language, an attitude and it gives you renewed vision. It allows you to instantly translate thought into a visual form.

In our Expressive Drawing course, we introduce you to several types of drawing: artistic, expressive, spontaneous, observational, “blind contour”, volumetric, gestural using as themes objects, portraits, landscapes and the human body. The basic elements: line, shape, form, volume, texture, light and dark are introduced as ingredients for creative experimentation, where doing and erasing, creating positive and negative shapes, allowing contrast and repetition come together resulting in a dynamic flux of energies. The course examines the relationship between technique and image, the language of materials, and drawing as an end product.

The focus is on the experience, the very act of drawing. The resulting work is a by-product.

We provide all of the materials and supplies that you would need. Just sign up, show up, and draw up!

Brushless Watercolor.An introduction to the basics with Fun Experimentations.6-class session

“Watercolor is fun and easy!”

This course presents watercolor as the playful, versatile, transformative, exciting medium by introducing its practice with more freedom. In this course, the student will get acquainted with the basics but also, delve into experimental techniques that are more freeing such as spraying, splashing, spattering, stamping, etc, which along with several additives, like salt, paraffin, alcohol, result in works that are full of spontaneity as well as control. Many times, the use of brushes is incidental. The resulting fun is not!

Open to students with varying levels of expertise, this course will look at choosing papers, brushes and pigments, as well as the many traditional ways to apply paint, create textures, glazes, and manage positive and negative space.

Encompassing the effective use of line, form, color, rhythm, it will aim at developing sensibilities within figurative and abstract ways of rendering any subject. All materials and supplies will be provided. Come join us for a nonwatered-down creative journey using watercolor.

1. Though sometimes referred to as Clinton or Midtown West, Hell's Kitchen has stuck as the most popular name of the neighborhood. Once home to mostly poor and working-class Irish-Americans, the area has seen massive development since the 1990's and increasing rents.

2. Hell's Kitchen is home to the Museum of Arts and Design, Since the Museum’s founding in 1956 by philanthropist and visionary Aileen Osborn Webb, MAD has celebrated all facets of making and the creative processes by which materials are transformed, from traditional techniques to cutting-edge technologies.

3. Because of it's proximity to Broadway, many famous artists and entertainers are from or have lived in Hell's Kitchen, including Bob Hope, James Dean, Madonna, and Alicia Keys.